How the Future of Work Looks Like?

Predictions for the future of work

✅ OUTPUT FOCUS: TIME WILL BE REPLACED AS THE MAIN KPI FOR JUDGING PERFORMANCE BY PRODUCTIVITY AND OUTPUT

GREAT WORKERS WILL BE THE ONES WHO DELIVER WHAT THEY PROMISE CONSISTENTLY

ADVANCEMENT DECISIONS WILL BE DECIDED BY CAPABILITY RATHER THAN WHO YOU DRINK BEER WITH AFTER WORK

Life-Work Balance: The rise of remote will lead to people re-prioritizing what is important to them

Organizing your work around your life will be the first noticeable switch. People realizing they are more than there job will lead to deeper purpose in other areas

Bullshit Tasks: The need to pad out your 8 hour day will evaporate, replaced by clear tasks and responsibilities

Workers will do what needs to be done rather than wasting their trying to look busy with the rest of the office

Health & Wellbeing: A lack of commute will give workers 25 extra days a year to do other things

Workers will exploit the freedom they have to organize things more freely in their day. Afternoon runs, morning meditation, 2 things a lot of people I know now do

Personal RPA: robotic process automation will transform work for individuals

No-code tools that enable workers to build bots that automate menial parts of their roles will be huge

SkullDeath of HQ: the office is dead but offices will persist. They’ll be used less frequently then hardly at all

Co-working, subscription clubs, will emerge that let workers who prefer that mode of work to operate from there

Remote Living: Work from anywhere RVs will become huge business

Associated business parks and services will spring up. This will happen even more rapidly as self-driving tech emerges

Expect a @Tesla product in this space

Life-work balance: massive increases in part-time and freelance work

A recognition that we no longer have to sacrifice work for living, we can organize work around our lives

Community-Led SaaS: as no-code continues to grow, tech is barely a barrier

Communities become the most important most a company has

Remote Visa: small nations coming together in order to attract remote workers at different stages of the year

Huge opportunity to synchronize education to enable families to be more fluid in their locations

Meeting Death: wasting 2 hours travelling to a meeting will end. The benefits of in-person are eroded by the benefits you get of not traveling

Conferences and quarterly networking events will becomes more important for cultivating in-person relationships

Personal choice: the smartest people I know personally are all planning to work remotely this decade

The most exciting companies I know personally all plan to hire remotely this decade

~90% of the workforces we’ve spoken to never want to be in an office again full-time

Written over spoken: documentation is the unspoken superpower of remote teams. The most successful team members remotely will be great writers

Companies are searching for ways to do this more effectively. Tools that enable others to write better will explode.

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